Linux-Misc Digest #428, Volume #18 Fri, 1 Jan 99 13:13:09 EST
Contents:
config File manager (ilyas guennoun)
Re: libdl.so.2? What is it, where is it? (Needed for Oracle 8i) (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: How To Slow Down System Clock (Jerry Lynn Kreps)
Re: Howto signal incoming mail (biff?) ("Mould")
Re: Sending text message to pager? (Gary Momarison)
Re: question about bc (Amit Singh)
Re: Besr dual boot w/ Windows? (Michael Powe)
Re: Dictionary for Linux? (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
GDK error (Matthias Warkus)
Re: help me choose license ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Where is the Console Driver Menu in Kernel 2.1.99? ("George Thia")
Re: Can redirect internal speaker beeps to soundcard? (Alex Butcher)
Re: Linux Roadmap (James Youngman)
Re: NOSPAM in addresses.. (Douglas E. Mitton)
find_solib : where dose it come ? (Junichi SAITO)
Netscape Communicator Hangs (Jack Slater)
Good Apache Server Book? (Cliff Etzel)
Re: Console display problems when logged in as root ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Good Apache Server Book? ("Dan H.")
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From: ilyas guennoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: config File manager
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 11:47:01 +0000
How can i configure my file manager under linus XFM (slackware dist) to
open files only by double clicking on its icons
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: libdl.so.2? What is it, where is it? (Needed for Oracle 8i)
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 06:02:25 -0600
J. Otto Tennant wrote:
>
> I am trying, for reasons which I do not care to disclose, to install
> Oracle 8I. Someone gave me a CD-ROM, and the thing is taking up much
> too much space.
>
> Unix, in general, is sometimes a bit confusing in its error messages;
> and I've been working with it for nigh onto a decade. It isn't always
> obvious when "can't find" refers to a file, or to an interpreter (as in
> one blew the right path in #!/usr/local/interpreter), or to a missing
> shared library.
>
> I seem to be missing libdl.so.2. Search engine references are not as
> helpful as I would like. I've got references to libc, libg, and
> something called "freetype2".
I run SuSE 5.3. libdl.so.2 isn't on my distro, either. Did you
recomple your kernel to reset all the system variables to their new
parameters?
> I'm using SuSe 5.3. Perhaps I should be using another distribution? Or
> SuSe 5.4 will solve all my problems?
I doubt it, since the next release will be called SuSE 6.0 ;^)
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From: Jerry Lynn Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How To Slow Down System Clock
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 06:26:14 -0600
Eddie Atherton wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that my date/time was slowly drifting.
>
> After running a few experiments I determined that my System clock is
> gaining about 40 seconds a day. My Hardware clock gains about 4
> seconds a day.
>
> Now I know (I think) how to compensate for the Hardware clock drift
> using CLOCK (or HWCLOCK). But doesn't that rely on a accurate System
> clock.
>
> How can I either find out why my System clock is gaining, or teach it
> to keep accurate time.
http://www.bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/javaclck.htm
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From: "Mould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Howto signal incoming mail (biff?)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:58:18 +0100
Hi!
Matthias Warkus schrieb in Nachricht ...
>> But now I want my server to beep regulary (say every hour or so) when new
>> mail has been received. Surely an entry in crontab, that executes every
>> hour, would do the trick, but how do I find out whether new mail went in?
>>
>> There are several users configured on the server and it should beep if
any
>> of them has new mail and as long as the mail has not been read.
>
>Why don't you use biff?
Biff? Well, I never used it, but doesn't it require the user to be logged
on?
This wouldn'd fit what I need. Imagine a little box without monitor standing
in a corner of my room and running 24h. What I want is that it beeps, when
new mail came in. Just like the ringing of a telephone. So, if it "rings" I
will start Outlook (or whatever) on my Windows-machine and look who dared to
write a letter to me. Or can that be done with biff?
Michael
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
news.software.nntp,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,fr.soc.divers,uk.test,misc.invest.stocks,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Sending text message to pager?
Date: 1 Jan 1999 19:03:06 GMT
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BALLS !!!
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rewum rff eitrp lfe ulti?
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ml re cu ipeh sr
xiook adinet mrzx aesl
amte euks ffdkekm mpie sty koo.
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From: Amit Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
news.software.nntp,news.admin.net-abuse.usenet,fr.soc.divers,uk.test,misc.invest.stocks,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: question about bc
Date: 1 Jan 1999 19:02:13 GMT
BOASTFUL BASTARD BAGLADY BARRY BOUWSMA BRUTALLY BITES BELGIAN BOBCAT BOWSER'S BOOLEAN
BALLS !!!
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mvs mzdtfe rjop uufe
zee jeik era xsx?
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qye ifv aimkd ntq wn
ey gmc nge eeaf esmlby eev
eoul cla eerb dew
hle vbxwe zmt eene lcn
prlym bxm ppy xgf?
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veee pfakpkx ewjk ueuoxga hiirmep ex
xto lzey bsipafe hakn suq oa
oymfevy ivd fdmeed dcefnkw oiats?
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wnhy oarm alj vilxih vxq
blp ehu kdpm toiln bqei
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ffty jrle eii be
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ksy renkt maxhl ndm.
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Besr dual boot w/ Windows?
Date: 01 Jan 1999 00:29:53 -0800
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>>>>> "Matt" == Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matt> I'm setting up a new system with Win 95/98 (undecided) and
Matt> Linux. I want to find the simplest, cheapest, most
Matt> flexible, and most convenient boot manager. I have
Matt> Partition Magic 3, and it works great. However, it won't
Lilo will boot other operating systems. I have Win95/linux. Lilo is
set to default to whatever you choose. You can have it boot normally
to linux, you can set the amount of time to wait before booting the
default setup.
To avoid the problem of Windows overwriting the mbr, you can install
Windows first and then linux. Once they're installed, if you do have
to reinstall Windows for some reason, you just have to boot your linux
boot disk and rerun lilo.
mp
8<---------------how-easy-is-it-to-demunge-an-address?------------------->8
#! /usr/bin/perl # if you are [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Another Luser):
while ($line = <>){ if ($line =~ m/^\s*$/ ){ last; }
if ($line =~ m/^From: (\S+) \(([^()]*)\)/){ $from_address = $1; } }
if ($from_address =~ m/\S+NOSPAM\S+/){ $x = index($from_address, NOSPAM);
substr($from_address, $x, 6+1) = ""; printf("The real address is %s\n",
$from_address);}else { printf("No munge, just plain %s\n",$from_address);}
printf("\nBrought to you by the Truth In Mail Headers Foundation\n");
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- --
Michael Powe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.trollope.org
Portland, Oregon USA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: Dictionary for Linux?
Date: 1 Jan 1999 12:56:35 GMT
Peter Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a good non-commercial or cheap English Dictionary software for
>Linux?
Check out http://www.dict.org/ ; packages of their software are included in
Debian.
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: netscape.public.mozilla.general
Subject: GDK error
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 14:49:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I never hand-hacked so many Makefiles, but finally, I got Mozilla (I think
it's the tarball from December 11 or so) to build.
I even got the executable to run (of course I had to set an
LD_LIBRARY_PATH). But it terminates immediately with this error:
Gdk-ERROR **: an x io error occurred
aborting...
IOT trap/Abort
I am using SuSE Linux 5.3, kernel 2.0.36, with XFree86;
gtk-config returns that my GTK version is 1.1.10;
my GDK is libgdk-1.1.so.10.0.0 (got it from Gnome CVS).
Can you help me?
mawa
--
Matthias Warkus | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dyson Spheres for sale!
My Geek Code is no longer in my .signature. It's available on e-mail request.
It's sad to live in a world where knowing how to program your VCR actually
lowers your social status...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help me choose license
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 14:02:03 GMT
steve mcadams writes:
> I have no clue what running a mailing list involves,...
Not too much. JUst install majordomo or one of its competitors.
> ...and don't know what a cvs repository is (cvs?)
Revision control on steroids. You need to learn about it ASAP.
> My current thinking is (a) don't release anything at all until the
> functionality is more or less complete, to avoid any premature forks,...
Ok.
> (b) release it as free code for non-commercial use,...
Then it isn't free. The free software community will ignore it.
--
John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this address.
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From: "George Thia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where is the Console Driver Menu in Kernel 2.1.99?
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,fj.os.linux,h
Date: 1 Jan 1999 23:46:02 +0800
I am unable to locate the Console Driver Menu in Kernel 2.1.99
Can anyone help?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Butcher)
Subject: Re: Can redirect internal speaker beeps to soundcard?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 15:48:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 30 Dec 1998 08:27:17 GMT, Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Is it possible to redirect the internal PC speaker beeps
>through the soundcard?
My SB16 has a couple of pins which I can connect to the PC speaker pins on the
motherboard instead of a real case speaker. Yours might have the same.
>Thanks,
>
>Tim Holmes
Best Regards,
Alex.
--
Alex Butcher Using Linux since '95 - because windows are too easy to break.
Berkshire, UK URLBLAST:slashdot.org:www.freshmeat.net:www.dejanews.com:
lwn.net:www.tomshardware.com:www.stardiv.de:www.gimp.org:
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Roadmap
Date: 01 Jan 1999 12:22:45 +0000
Jim O'Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Anyone know if there is such a thing as a roadmap for Linux in the
> future?
Yes. It's "World Domination, Fast", apparently.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NOSPAM in addresses..
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 15:23:39 GMT
I'm really sorry you feel that way ... how do you deal with SPAM?
{Besides the later report that your FROM line doesn't work! :-) }
>From a personal experience the spam became very over-powering. When I
first got on the net (first ISP) I didn't take any precautions and I
rapidly became swamped by spam, 8+ pieces per day, some very large and
if I wasn't on each day to keep them cleaned up they were a pain.
Even after I started the NOSPAM thing it was too late, I was already
on mailing lists.
{Swamped is relative, but I regularly access my account via slow(er)
dialup connections and the SPAM is a real pain!}
A year ago my ISP went out of business and I was forced to change. I
maintained my NOSPAM policy and now I DO NOT GET SPAM! It does work.
I am still paying for my folly at work ... I post a little from there
and it hasn't changed in many years ... I get 10+ pieces per day ...
more on the weekends. It will be scary when I get back from a couple
weeks of vacation. I'll probably get some nasty notes from the
administrator about too many messages stored in my inbox.
Just one other point ... isn't it considered "anti-usenet" to reply by
email instead of posting to the group ... to assist others following
the thread?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>(edit)
>>
>> Don't email to people who munge addresses. (edit)
>
>I endorse this sentiment. I frequently reply to questions by
>E-mail only to subsequently receive an " undeliverable " message,
>even though I try to decipher a "proper" E-mail address.
>
>This is extremely irritating. I now commonly do not bother
>to help a poster who does not provide a "proper" E-mail
>address. Oftentimes, the question is of the " been- asked- a-
>thousand- times- already " variety.
================================================
Doug Mitton - Brockville, Ontario, Canada
'City of the Thousand Islands'
Amateur Radio: VE3DMZ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cybertap.com/dmitton
SPAM Reduction: Remove "x." from my domain.
================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Junichi SAITO)
Subject: find_solib : where dose it come ?
Date: 1 Jan 1999 15:19:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
find_solib: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error
I get often the message above when I run through gdb an application
after it dumps core. This occurs randomly with different applications.
My questions are:
- Where dose the message come ? Is it a function name of some kind
in a lib ?
- Why dose it happen ?
--
junichi
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From: Jack Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netscape Communicator Hangs
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 08:37:18 -0700
I'm having trouble with Netscape communicator 4.5 occasionally hanging
when
reading pages from the web. Certain files (e.g. Barnes and Noble's
magazine
list) will hang it every time. It is not a random event. Communicator
is then
crashed. I had similar trouble with an earlier version (maybe 4.08),
but in
that case the problem could always be fixed by turning off the Java
Script
capability. Now if have it (Java) off and still have trouble.
I'm using Slakware 3.4 with the 2.0.30 kernel and the libc5 library.
Has anyone see behavior like this? Any ideas?
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Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 08:57:23 -0800
From: Cliff Etzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.isp
Subject: Good Apache Server Book?
I am looking for a book or other documentation that explains the setup
and various configurations of Apache server. My only requirement is
that it is written and explains the information in terminology someone
who is not that experienced (yet) with can understand.
Any suggestions who greatly be appreciated.
TIA
Cliff Etzel
ClifCom
**REMOVE THE NOSPAM TO REPLY**
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Console display problems when logged in as root
Date: 1 Jan 1999 12:22:45 GMT
Fred Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> : A serious problem with ncurses programs has recently developed on my Linux
> : box.
> : Whenever I use a program that uses ncurses when I'm logged in as root on a
> : VT, many characters, such as the horizontal and vertical bars, are
> : incorrectly displayed and the screen is as a result badly corrupted, nearly
> : to the point where it is unreadable. I stress that this only happens when I
> : am logged in as root and only when I am on a VT, not in an xterm. Does
> : anyone have any ideas as to what may be causing this and what may be done to
> : fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am running Red Hat 5.1 on
> : a Dell PPro 200.
> Having just installed RH5.2 I noticed that root gets his own set of
> terminfo database files, and that the 'linux' terminal description in
> root's database is different than the one in the main database. Might
> this be your problem?
You may be referring to $HOME/.terminfo (a private copy of the terminfo
database - imho a misfeature, at best). In my faq (this is the most faq):
The current version of ncurses is 4.2
There's an faq at
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html
> I was wondering if that was a bug, or a feature? :^)
I voted against it (but it got released with that "feature", and the
best I could do after that was to deprecate it by making it not the
default mode of the configure script). I can't simply remove it since
there are enough people out there who think it's a Good Thing that
they would stick with that version (and continue to file bug reports)
than upgrade.
--
Thomas E. Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey
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From: "Dan H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.isp
Subject: Re: Good Apache Server Book?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 17:33:18 +0000
Cliff Etzel wrote:
>
> I am looking for a book or other documentation that explains the setup
> and various configurations of Apache server. My only requirement is
> that it is written and explains the information in terminology someone
> who is not that experienced (yet) with can understand.
I've got these on my bookshelf:
APACHE The Definitive Guide , O'Reilly Press
Apache Server for Dummies, IDG Books
UNIX WEBMASTER BIBLE, IDG Books
LINUX UNLEASHED, Sams Publishing
These have done me well so far :)
Dan H
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